Penguins by Seymour Simon Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Penguins by Seymour Simon.

With 30 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will apply listening and note-taking skills, investigate different species of penguins, compare & contrast, make inferences and connections, learn and apply new vocabulary, determine text structure, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

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• Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.

• Who Am I?: Students will match the words in the word bank to the descriptions and draw and color a picture of each penguin (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Word Scramble: Students use the details from the book to unscramble the words (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Fact or Fiction: Students determine whether the details are facts from the story or made-up (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers ONLY): Students read the details and determine if they are true or false (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers and correct the false details): Students determine if the details are true or false, and rewrite the false statements to make them true (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Penguin Playing Cards: Students create playing cards that include one or two facts they learned about each penguin and include a colored illustration.

• Penguin ABCs: Students write words or phrases that begin with each letter of the alphabet to show what they learned about penguins.

• 2 - Crossword Puzzles: Students use the clues and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEYS INCLUDED).

• Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the puzzle. Words can go across or down. Letters are shared when the words intersect (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Compare & Contrast: Students compare and contrast penguins and other birds.

• Text Structure: Students take note of how the author organized and presented the information about penguins on the selected pages given. Then, they determine the main idea, supporting details, and text structure the author used to organize the information.

• All About Penguins Flipbook: While reading or listening to the story, students will take notes in their flipbooks. This activity includes 6 pages (ANSWER KEY included).

• Acrostic Poem: Students create an acrostic poem to describe penguins.

• Book Review: Students will rate and review the book.

• Long Research Project on Penguins: Students conduct research to learn more about penguins and complete graphic organizers, which include; answering questions, drawing and labeling an illustration, recording fun facts, defining and illustrating new vocabulary, and completing a summary report.

• One-Page Research Project on Penguins: Students conduct research to learn more about penguins and complete a one-page report with facts regarding the habitat, features, diet, movement, and interesting facts.

• Penguin Roll & Research: Students roll a die to see which penguin they will research to learn more about. Then, they conduct research using teacher-approved websites and informational texts to look for information to answer the provided questions.

• ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY - Endangered Penguin Species Research Project: Students will research an endangered penguin species and create a final product (brochure, infographic, digital presentation, etc.)

• Teacher Notes: This includes instructions, final product options, and a list of linked websites that students can use to get started.

• Infographic Planning Sheet: Students will complete the planning sheet and create an infographic for the endangered penguin species they researched.

• Informational Brochure: Two template options are included (with writing lines, & without writing lines).

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.